Felix Baumgartner, the first man to jump from space
Parachutist Felix Baumgartner, a world famous for having been the first man to jump from the stratosphere and break the sound barrier without the use of a vehicle, died Thursday at the age of 56 after a paragliding accident in the Italian region of Las Marks.
Known for performing extreme acts, the Austrian Parachute Felix Baumgartner He died this Thursday, after being ill during a paragliding flight in Porto Sant’elpidio, Italy.
Baumgartner lost control of the motorized paragliding and fell into the pool of a tourist establishment. According to Italian media cited by, the accident left a person with injuries without gravity,
According to the Mayor of Porto Sant’elpidio, Massimiliano Ciarpellareports of the accident suggest that the Austrian Parachute, 56, may have suffered a sudden medical problem in the air. The mayor offered the city’s condolences for the death of “a Symbol of courage and passion by the extreme flights ”.
Born in Salzburg in 1969, Baumgartner helped popularize extreme sports, with skyscrapers, bridges and rocks.
The Austrian became known worldwide in October 2012 when, using a especially done fact, jumped from a balloon 38 km above the earthbecoming the first human to jump from the stratosphere – and also the First to break the barriertypically reached more than 1,110 km/h.
During the historic jump, which took place about Roswell, New Mexico, on the 65th anniversary of the legendary flight of the American pilot Chuck Yeager, that first broke the barrier of sound on October 14, 1947, Baumgartner reached a Maximum speed of more than 1,340 km/h.
“When I was there at the top of the world, make you so humbleno longer think about breaking records, I don’t think about scientific data. The only thing you want is to go back alive, ”said the Austrian skydiver after the landing.
The altitude to which Baumgartner jumped was also the highest ever For a Parachutist, then beaten the previous record, established in 1960 by the former US Air Force pilotoe Kittinger – who served as Baumgartner’s advisor during his feat.
O self -proclaimed “God of the heavens” He began to do parachDismo when he was a teenager before dedicating herself to extreme jumping base. Your long bold jump career It included skydiving through the spot canal and jumping from the Petron Towers in Malaysia.
In Austria it was also known for courting the controversy, having several times expressed opinions that included dictatorship support as a government system. In 2016, he recommended the Nobel Peace Prize for Prime Minister Hungarian Viktor Orban, and supported a populist candidate From right to the Austrian presidency.
Baumgartner had on his right arm a tattoo with the phrase “born to fly“. Born to fly, and died to do so.
